Physical Fitness in Health and Disease

At the end of the posting, students should be able to: 1. describe physical fitness and components of physical fitness; 2. justify the use of physical fitness to promote health in apparently healthy and in disease states; 3. plan appropriate physical fitness training programme for people with selected health challenges; and 4. highlight the factors modulating engagement in physical fitness in disease states.

Concept of wellness and health promotion. Definition and components of physical fitness. Physical fitness in health and disease. Field and laboratory/clinical methods of assessing physical fitness. Physical fitness training programme for people with obesity, cardiorespiratory functions impairments, amputation, post-stroke hemiplegia/hemiparesis; spinal cord injury patients, children with acute flaccid paralysis, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and autism.